Heritage Live Auction -- Black Swamp debacle

I was able to speak with the family right after the auction ended. Talk about some down to earth caring individuals. There biggest gain from this whole thing is that it reunited the family and brought bonds closer. It was never about the money or the recognition from the find. It all ended up making the hobby guys happy and the family happy. A win win IMO.

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Bottom line.....on this board, Heritage could not have won. If they'd not disclosed all the cards in the find, they'd have been misleading the public. And while I like the OP and his doggedness on stuff like this, he would likely have been one of the people flaming them for not disclosing everything. If they do as they did and disclaim it, then they're not seeking the most for their clients. Geez....we can't have it both ways, can we?

My personal opinion, which, with $4.00 might buy you a cup of coffee.....is they did it the right way, grading all of them, disclosing the totals of each card and beginning to sell them off in groups at intervals over the next few years. Will the next group bring what that group did? Who knows. I think some of the family members are planning on keeping their groups or near sets from what I heard. So all 700+ may not see the hobby light of day immediately. Some of the people may not need that $150-$200K immediately. The money means a lot to a lot of people but some people may have the sentimentality of keeping something that their grandmother or great grandmother or father put away. Who knows. Like others, I've heard the family is happy with the results. Not sure if that $566K will be split among the 22 or if it was just one person's share or something. I'm sure the financials of it all are complicated and among the family.

Kudos to Heritage for doing it the way they did it.....

I STILL don't particularly like them bidding on their own auctions though as I think that could be fraught with issues. That's another issue for another thread though.....

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by Pup6913

I was able to speak with the family right after the auction ended. Talk about some down to earth caring individuals. There biggest gain from this whole thing is that it reunited the family and brought bonds closer. It was never about the money or the recognition from the find. It all ended up making the hobby guys happy and the family happy. A win win IMO.

The family would have been just as reunited if the cards had gone for more.